…th Israel on behalf of the Palestinians by now, making things very difficult and costly for Israel. And these new outfits will have a broader agenda than Hamas, for they will pursue a more general, global, anti-West, anti-Christian, and anti-Judaism platform rather than the narrow geographical issue that Hamas was pursuing. This will make them far more dangerous than Hamas ever was. They will be more on the lines of ISIS or al-Qaeda in their general hatred of the West. And, to them, Hamas will become a powerful, totemic figure, a martyr for the larger cause of Islam, not just Palestine. You may physically destroy the Hamas organization today, but you can never erase that totem.
